Sunday, November 3, 2013

Hoarders

I felt like I needed to dedicate an entire post on this subject. I have NEVER in my ENTIRE life seen so much stuff in one house except on TV on the show Hoarders. I feel like our life the past months could have been a reality show. We never imagined that buying this great big house would mean we had to move the older couple out and deal with EVERYTHING else that they left for us. Every room was full and every closet was full. Every barn and shed (all 5 of them) were full. I mean floor to ceiling full in most of them. Boxes and stuff everywhere. I just can't even explain except that it has taken us a month and a half to clean out this house. We could have never ever done it without my parents. They have helped so much!! They have helped with moving everything, cleaning and watching the kids so much. We are so thankful!

We also could not have done it without Mr. Carl and his family/workers. He was the one who did the auction for us and he did so much. I don't think his 30% was nearly enough. It took his guys 3-4 days just to clean out 3 of the sheds/barns. Pictures don't even do it justice but I will tell you we are on our 5th dumpster and these are HUGE 40 ft dumpsters and that is just for the "trash." Josh took a large trailer full to Goodwill and we sold a lot at the auction/yard sale. They made a decent amount of money. They got out the best...they didn't have to do any work and still made money, haha. They were the smart one's in all of this. Of course we don't mind helping them because they just can't do it but it was a long long weekend. You just don't know how happy it makes me seeing our yard clean. We had tents and stuff everywhere that entire week.

We also have had a problem with people coming onto the property and trying to take things or even coming into the house. We had to hang a Private sign on the front door to try to keep people out. People have been trying to come in and buy stuff that is not for sale. I think because we had a three day sale there people just thought everything was for sale and that they could just come take things that were in the yard. Thankfully now everything is locked up outside and we head over there every night and lock the house once all the workers leave. We have painted the upstairs and done a lot of the trim work already and the plumbers finished last week. Now we are just trying to find an electrician to re-wire the house so we can finish up the upstairs. This weekend we pretty much got the back room done that we are using for our attic and started moving stuff in there. After we get the upstairs lighting done and the bathroom done we will be all ready to have the floors done and then we can start moving stuff up there. We still have a few inspection type things to get done and I am hoping we can do that this week sometime. We are also working on the kitchen now and that has been the most fun getting to pick all of that out. I can't wait to post some before and after pictures soon!!

2 comments:

  1. I know a good electrician if you are looking for one!

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  2. thanks so much I just saw this but we found one...hope you are doing well!!

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